Now She is Witch: ‘Myth-making at its best‘ Val McDermid

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A brilliant stand-alone story to read on cold, wintery nights with the wind howling and the rain pouring outside. It will definitely go down as one of my top reads of the year, and possibly one of my all-time favourites too. Like phantom whispers and long cold busy little fingers who are always watching but don’t belong to the same reality as the main characters. In this witch story unlike any other, Lux and Else join forces to take their revenge on a powerful man. But Lux is cunning; she knows how to exploit people's expectations, how to blend into the background.

The book also has enough action to keep you on your toes, while the other chapters; where the author takes the reader to reminisce about her characters’ past are long enough to slow your speeding heart rate a little.

It’s a moment of grace and vindication, one that Logan lets the long-suffering Lux experience utterly, triumphantly alone. The synopsis of the story is fairly straightforward -- Luz, a young woman, thrown from a monastery she never chose to go to, is chased out of her hometown by odious townsfolk accusing her of witchcraft. As a lover of witches, female rage, revenge murder, gender neutrality, matriarchy, and the word ‘cunt,’ this was good as hell. But, on the off chance you have no clue what I’m rattling on about, all I can say is, read this book to find out.

In the many stories that fall shrieking from the pages of this brutal, bracing novel, we encounter maidens forced to become mothers and mothers, if they live long enough, punished as witches or scorned as crones.This is the skill in her storytelling, that I have another genre to add to the two listed at the start: mystery. One of our national writing treasures , Kirsty Logan's latest tale is a deeply atmospheric , sometimes gory but ultimately uplifting . Now She Is Witch feels like the making of a new one, while also fitting into the landscape of British Isles folklore more generally.

Wordsmith extraordinaire Kirsty Logan has written what is possibly her best novel yet in a tale that feels as old as the hills but sparkles with formal inventiveness. From the snowy winter woods to the bright midnight sun; from lost and powerless to finding your path, Now She is Witch conjures a world of violence and beauty - a world where women grasp at power through witchcraft, sexuality and performance, and most of all through throwing each other to the wolves.

Kirsty Logan is the author of three novels, three story collections, a memoir, two chapbooks, a 10-hour audio play for Audible, and several collaborative projects with musicians and visual artists. Now She Is Witch is a beautiful and twisted dark tale of feminine power in a time when a woman with power was deemed to be in league with the devil. Now She is Witch is a beautiful, atmospheric, resonant tale that follows Lux and Else as they fight to be heard and to tell their own stories. Near the beginning of Kirsty Logan’s fine new novel, a travelling theatre company stages a nocturnal performance on a frozen lake.